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BY- 

Margaret E Jordan. 


LIBI^^OF CONGRESS. 

Chap,^^. Copyright No. 

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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. 


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J3.PLEA SANT FACES 

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MARGARET E. JORDAN 

AUTHOR OF “ GATHERED LEAVES,” “ ECHOES FROM THE PINES,” “ A DAY OF THANKSGIVING,” 

“ CHORAL LEAFLETS,” ETC. 



WITH INTRODUCTION AND APPENDIX 

Mrs B. Ellen Burke. 


Educational Series for Homes and 
(copyright by the author.) 


New York ; 


Schools. No. 1 



ROSARY PUBLICATION COMPANY, 
871 Lexington Avenue. 



31231 


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Cbri0t ffilcsalng Xittle (Tbilbren, 

[after flock HORST.] 


,!> Wish for ®u:r liltJe Mqu 
and Womtn, 

^ands to be lovingly helpjul; 

Qyes to beam k;jndly alway; 

^ips to speal^ ^er|tly to people; 

^earts to be teiyder, yet ^a/"; 

3®uls to be stroi^ in terriptation; 

fl[^inds to learq^ all that they^ rT|ay 
01 0od aqd ^is lovely v/ork, f^ature- 
*^or tljese iq^ our ct|ildren We pray! 




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INTRODUCTION. 


This modest little book is for the use of children at home or in 
school. 

The place it is designed to fill in the great plan of education 
has been vacant until now, when Margaret E, Jordan presents us 
with a dainty volume for our children. 

No part of the legitimate work of the school is of more impor- 
tance than that of teaching the children how to read. A large 
part of the recorded wisdom of the past — perhaps the largest 
portion that is available to the greatest number of the people — 
is to be found in books. To be able to acquire this wisdom, to 
learn about the investigations and labors of the great ones of 
other ages and lands, the student must know how to wrest from 
the silent pages the thoughts stored in words. 

The teacher’s work in this line is threefold: 

1. To instruct in such a manner that the symbol or word will 
convey thought to the mind through the eye as rapidly as the 
spoken word conveys it to the mind through the ear. 

2. To cultivate the taste of the child, so that good thoughts, 
told in a beautiful manner, will be the ones he will most desire. 

3. To lead, guide, and direct him to the sources and foundations 
of the best and noblest in literature. 

The child must be interested in his work in order to do his best. 
He will learn more rapidly if the matter to be read is pleasing to 
him. Children like melody and rhyme, stories about children and 
animals, songs describing actions and plays. 

To arouse and hold the interest, the nature of the thought and 
the manner in which it is presented to him must be considered. 

Change, even if only in a slight degree, is of educational value. 
Difference in the appearance of books — in their color, form, size, 


type, and illustrations, as well as in the stories — adds to his 
pleasure. 

The day of the one book a year for the reading class has gone 
by. Supplementary reading has been tested and found good. 

It is a difficult task, and one almost impossible to achieve, to cul- 
tivate a love of good literature in the mind of a child who has 
had only four or five different reading books during all the gold- 
en, precious years of his school life. 

In presenting to our schools this collection of a few of the 
many poems the author has written for children, the thought, 
vocabulary, and form of expression have been taken into consid- 
eration. 

The author and myself, in behalf of the children in homes and 
schools, gladly take this opportunity of giving public expression 
of appreciation of all that the Editor of TJie Rosary Magazijie has 
done for the literary education of the little ones. Keenly alive 
to the value of supplementary reading combining text and illustra- 
tion, he has generously placed the plates of the magazine at our 
disposal for this work. 

To the Catholic Protectory thanks are extended for generosity 
and interest in giving to the little volume the best of material and 
press work. 

Collections will follow, containing selections from the writings 
of other living authors: men and women connected with our mag- 
azines and newspapers, busy in the great work of the Apostolate 
of the Press, the ones who are moulding and shaping the thought 
of the age. 

It is well that parents and children should know the names 
and the works of those who find pleasure in weaving songs and 
stories for the little ones of whom Christ said: 

“ Suffer the little children, and forbid them not to come to Me : 
for the Kingdom of Heaven is of such.” 


B. Ellen Burke. 





ANGELS GUARD THEM. 

Ten dear little children, 

With not an earthly care, 

Join their youthful voices 
In singing and in prayer. 

Join their happy voices 

In laughing, shouting play, 
Till the ten wee children 
Grow sleepy with the day. 

While the day is sleeping. 

Held in the arms of night, 
Happy children slumber 
In downy beds of white. 

Ten of God’s dear angels, 
Through all the happy day. 
Guard these merry children 
From danger in their play. 

And through hours of darkness 
They never, never sleep, — 
O’er each child one hovers. 

And faithful watch doth keep. 


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f here’s a darling little fairy, 

She is cheery, sweet, and airy. 

She lives upon the lips of folks on earth; 

She can comfort hearts in sadness. 
Bringing one bright smile of gladness, 
E’en though she cannot wake the song of mirth 

She reigns till noon, from dawning- — 

Her name it is “ Good Morning 
Oh! do you know this fairy kind and true? 

At noon she goes a-sleeping 
To wake up at the peeping 
Of next gray dawn from starry clouds of blue 

But oh! — I’ll not deceive you — 

I’m very sure she’ll leave you 
If angry words upon your lips should stay. 
And oh! — I’ve found it out — 

I’ll tell you true, a pout 
Will drive this happy fairy far away. 

O children, to me listen! 

While sunbeams dance and glisten 

Or hide from you, — I pray, let her be found, 

This darling little fairy. 

So winsome, bright, and airy, 

Upon your lips to scatter gladness ’round, 

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^ didn’t mean to tell a lie, 
Nor Lion didn’t, either; 
But mamma thinks her little girl 
Intended to deceive her. 


Poor Lion! Guess his heart 
must ache; 

He feels as bad as I do; 

And if he was a little girl 

I’m sure that he would 
cry, too. 

I wonder how the good 
goes out, 

And how the bad gets 
in us ! 

My mamma says she’ll 
punish now. 

She’s tried so long to 
win us. 

So Lion and I, — we’re in disgrace, 
And mamma, she’s in sorrow — 
She said so. Oh, I hope the good 

Will stay in us to-morrow! 

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^oz<^oi to tafio i4^ap! 




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Xsq’t old, dear (grar|dma! 

^8 old as she caq be; 

j^et’s dress her up real preity 

^e’ll mab^e her youn^, you’ll see. 

gibbons ar|d peacock Jeathers 

"^hey pinned orp tlpe sr|ov\/y cap, 
^nd dear old (grandma, smiling, 

*^or^ot to lake her r|ap! 

3n\ilin^. sl|e patched and mended, 

(^ould ybu t|ave seen l|er ther| 
you'd surely sa/ tt|e ct|ildren 
^ad nr|ade t|er /buq^ ^ainl 


BABY IN PAPA’S EYES. 


^AiNTY little Eva, 

^ Perched on papa’s knee, 
With her blue eyes gazing. 
Oh, how earnestly! 

Upward into papa’s; 

Wonder what they see? 

Eva is real quiet — 

Never was before. 

Only when in dreamland,— 

“ Papa, keep the door 
Of your eyes wide open! ” — 

Ah, the spell is o’er. 

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“ How-do-do, dear bab}’, 
Ilow-do-do, dear? speak! 
Say; ‘ I’m well, I thank you; 

I was sick last week; 

Say; ‘ I’m very sorry,’ 

Let’s play hide-and-seek!’ 

To and fro she tumbles. 
Calling merrily; 

“ Keep eye -doors open, papa; 

Mantnia, eonie and see 
The dear little baby 
Looking out at me! ” 

“ Mamma, I see bab}" 

In both }"our eyes, too; 
Eva ’ll keep doors open — 
Look in her e\"es, do; 

Can you see a baby 
Looking out at you? ” 








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^-bl0oiT|ir|^ everywl|ere. 

l^issed tl|e baby ct|eek ar|d said, 
'~V^itl| loVe-lj^ht ir| 0ur eyes : 

-She is an faster ^il/i br0i^ht 
Sy ^q^els J r0m the skies ” 

^nd she, tl|e baby, ^rew t0 lyn0V\^ 
^r|d l0ve the lilies white, 

^nd called them “pitty faster ^ 
^pd lyissed therr[ with delight. 

0 h! st|ielded may tt[e darling be 
0hr0u^h lije ir| angels’ care, 
^11 guileless evermere as povW 
0 he lily-branch tc bear. 


owers. 


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To waste is wicked/’ mamma says. 

How very wicked folks must be 
To waste the letters so in words, 

And make the spelling hard for me! 

Now, what’s the use of a w ” 

Put in t-0 ” in spelling ‘‘ two ” ? 

And, oh! what use can ever be 

The letter “ a” in “ tea ” and sea ” ? 

An is thrown away in ^^oh”; 

And bread” would sound the same, I know, 
If “ a,^’ was never put in it; 

And e” is never needed a bit 

In spelling hearth ” and heart ” ; and why, 

When e” isn’t needed in spelling ‘^high,” 

Is it wasted in spelling height ” ? It’s queer 
My mamma says that learning costs dear; 
Perhaps it may be cheaper some day 
When people stop throwing the letters away. 
And only to think that in many a word 
Three whole letters are never heard! 

Who hears u-g-h ” in though ” ? 

It’s just the same spelled t-h-o; ” — 

And three used often, when, just as well. 

One in their place a word would spell! 

When w ” will finish cow,” 

Why waste u-g-h ” in ‘‘ bough ” ? 

And, oh, dear! how it puzzles me 

Why an should always wasted be 

In '"muff” and "snuff,” for one would do, 

I’m very sure, as well as two. 

My mamma says ’tis great, smart men 
Who make the books; oh, dear me! when 
They are so smart, why don’t they see 
How very, very nice ’twould be 
To save the letters thrown away. 

And make new words of them some day! 



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A GIFT FOR THE SACJRET) lIEAR^r. 



knelt near a fragrant altar, 
P Each clasping a chaplet white, 
The wee, wee cliiidrenof Mary, 
Young faces aglow with love-light. 


“ "We’ve come to you. Christ's dear Mother, 
Oil the feast of ITis Sacred Heart, 

To ask you to finish our otfering 
When we shall have done our part. 


“ Onr mothers on earth always finish 
The work that our little hands do. 

And they fix all the bad looking places — 
That’s the reason we come now to vou. 


“ ’Cause this is an offering for Jesus, 

And you are His Mother, and know 
Just how it should be when ’tis finished- 
We never could make it cpiite so.” 

* * * * ^ 
How fondly tliey said the Onr Fathers, 
The Hail Marys and Glorias ! When 
The Rosary chaplet was ended 
They tenderly pleaded again: 


“Dear Mother of Jesns! please finish 
Our offering — our best we have done, 
But v'oiir hands can make it more lovely 
For the Sacred Heart of your Son I ” 


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n Inbejpcntrjnce Bag. 


•ff)urrab, burrab for tbc Dear olD fla^, 
fTbat wavee so slaD aiiD free ! 

•fl^urrab, burrab for tbc stars aiiD stripes, 
JFor tbe graiiD olD colors three ! 

1l3urrab tor tbe patriots brave auD bolD 
mho ranci out LIBERTY!’^ 

1l3urrab tor tbe “ UNION of “ BLUE AND GREY'^ 
rom tbe centre to tbe sea ! ’’ 

1l:)urrab tor tbe motto : ‘‘ IN GOD WE TRUST/»— 

BuD praise auD bless— ’tis meet auD just ! 



A WISE MAMMA-CAT. 

WISE Mamma-cat once determined to be 
Her Kittie-cats’ teacher in A. B. C. 

She feared that in any school round about 
New ways of mischief they might find out, 

So, wee Lucy’s chart every morning she read, 

Storing with letters her wise little head; 

But her frolicsome kitties she never could get 
To settle right down to that alphabet. 



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Prince, he saved my life: One day 
In the woods I lost my way; 

Prince, he found me, and, you know, 

Ever since I’ve loved him so! 

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“Ketch It. 

Oh, the jolliest times have we, 

Playing in the lovely sea. 

“ Fetch it, 
fetch it. 
Prince! ” 
I say, 
Throwing 
far the 
stick 
away. 
Dear old 
fellow! 
he swims 
out. 

Catches it, 
and turns 


about, 

Brings it proudly back to me. 

Oh, the jolliest times have we! 


Sometimes we are, oh, so gay— 
Sometimes not a word we say. 

I just look at him, and he 
With his big eyes looks at me. 

Though he doesn’t know one letter, 

No one says “ 1 love you ” better! 

But a frolic in the sea — 

That’s what Prince likes best, with me! 

* * sH * 

Life it is a changing sea — 

Ended soon will playdays be. 

Older will the girlie grow. 

And the doggie staid and slow. 

Still will doggie cling — true friend I 
Till the dear brute life doth end. 

Beats a heart in doggie’s breast — 

In dumb ways its love expressed. 
Kindly word with loving pat— 

How each dog-heart beats at that ! 
Kicks or cuffs, words harshly spoken— 
Doggie’s heart is well-nigh broken 1 

Children ! kind to dumb beasts be — 

God gave them to you and me ! 
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^ ^coss ^amma-jliit, 

ff|amma-cat and l<^itlies ll]^ree 
^us( as still as still can be. 
flf|arT|rT|a-cat has scolded well— 
^nd jor wt|at ?— ^h, wl|o ean tell ? 
f^itties were ^ust having Jur| 

^und tt|eir rT|anr|ma-cat— cross or|e! 
f|^amrT|a-cats Jor^et, you kr|6wC 
*^hey were l^ittens lon^ a^o. 


A, E, I, O, U. 


xifr^TE are just five little letters 

Of the great big alphabet; 

A*) People always call us vowels, — 

’Mongst the consonants we’re set. 

All of us but one are equal 
To a word, it will be found: 

Tho’ each word holds other letters. 

We alone could give the sound. 

“ Aye,” “ eye,” “ oh ,” “ you,”— please just listen 
Then us little vowels name: 

A, I, O, U — now please tell us, 

Are the sounds not just the same? 

“ People ” couldn’t do without us — 

P - - pi -, — how queer they look! 

B - - k, — nothing’s left but covers 
If we’re taken from a “ book! ” 

P - n, — who could tell its meaning? 

But ’tis clear if you put in 

Four of us in turn — we’ll make it 

“ Pan,” or “ pun,” or “ pen,” or “ pin.” 

C - 1, — who could tell, we wonder. 

What a person meant to say: 

“ Cot,” or “ cut,” or “ cat ” — three of us 
Make three words as plain as day. 

B - 1, — what is it? You wonder; 

“ Bat,” or “ but,” or “ bet,” or “ bit; ” 

All four words you’ll have whenever 
Four of us take turns in it. 

Reading, writing, speaking, people 
Always need our help, and yet 

What are we but five small letters 
Of the great big Alphabet? 

^ ^ ^ ^ 

When five humble little vowels 
Are of such great use to man. 

Little things must all have places 
In the great Eternal Plan, 







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JEALOUSY. 

Tommy wouldn’t play with me; 

I think he’s very naughty; 
Said he had to do his sums, 

And count most up to forty. 

Thinks more of his horrid slate 
Than of his little brother, — 
So I broke his slate all up. 

And now he’s telling mother. 


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'®[ill^ *11^0111115011 iijiisoe. 



Ibi&es tbe sun ’ueatb barft’iung sbg, 
Summer storm winbs murmur bg, 
®n tbe beacb rise wavelets bujb— 
Mbat cares far»off labbie I 

power, none have they? to bccjnile 
lljis y?onng spirit set awbile 
Jfrom a lonels sea=girt isle— 

2>ream on, bapps labbie ! 

©pen page strange stors tells, 
anb tbe soutbful bosom swells— 
Mitb bis famous bero bwells 
©ur enraptureb labbie ! 

* * * 

aSosboob bass will pass, we imow ; 
Still will fanes wanbering go— 
Pearts ne’er anchor here below— 
S)o tbes, winsome labbie ? 

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a Ibelpless Match. 



here’s sorriebody corning, and here are we, 
(^hained as do^s should never be. 

^ow can we capture a bold, bad HiieJ 
Xf nobod/ corT|es to ^ive us reliej ? ” 
j\nd Carlo sat rr|O0dy, and growled ar^d jrowlied, 
~V^hile lynx-eyed ^eo b^ept watch arour^d. 



anb ci'nb cv-vueci', 

^t'l^jacy -mabe to fooo awb 



flow anb Uben. 


^pples russel, golden, red, 

^ushel bask^e} b rimrT|ir|^^ o’er, 
f^it and _^en with carejul tread 
0a rr)^ to the | arm house door. 
J^pples— tt^ey Vere rr^ade to eat — 
an apple j^ust like tt^is, 
*^lurT|p and rosy, brj^ht and sWeet, 
’tVas n|ade to love and hjss 


_^arlir|^ babyi trappy, fair ! 

3Hall you ever be as now, 
witt| a loving care? 
ff^orn ar|d eve we, pray^erjul, bowC 
^arjul we tt|at ^riej n^ay Jail. 

^^ith our questior| answers: “ ^/es, 
0ne there is wlpo guides through all : 
(^od will eVer shield and bless!” 



P^5^/‘hen she is very good and sweet 


E fondly call her “ Marguerite; ” 


|\r else ’tis by the name of “ Pearl ” 


^^E call our darling, pure-souled girl. 
J)UT when she’s peevish, — “ in a fret 


then, we use the nickname “ Pet.” 
ND when she spends whole days in fun 
EGLECTiNG duties, everyone. 


then, in grief, we call her “ Daisy ’ 


Because, you see, it rhymes with lazy. 


UT when at break and close of day, 


S ND noontide Aageliis, we pray, 
M LL other names our lips forget- 


Mj'jE say: “ God bless our “ Margaret! ” 


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“ All for you! breathe parted lips; 

“ All for you! ” beam lifted eyes; 

“All for you! “ beats loving heart, 

As a little maiden hies, 

Laden with sweet vines and flowers, 
Gathered in May’s dewy hours. 

“ All for you! ’’ the sweet voice says. 
And the fragrant treasure lies 
Scattered round our Lady’s feet, 

While the love-lit, azure eyes 
Upward lift to Mary’s own. 

Looking down from May-day throne. 

“ All for you,’’ — the flowrets dropped, — 
Clasps the little maid her beads; 
Breathes Hail Marys all for love. 

Quite forgetting childish needs; 

But the May Queen knows each one. 
And she breathes them to her Son. 


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l'I>@ ®J«88ing of ihg Wag. 

Glowing and red, as the blood that was shed 
On many a battle-field; 

Spotless and bright, as the lives chaste-white 
In noblest of struggles sealed; 

Heaven’s own azure, with red and white blent, 
Star-gemmed e’en as the firmament: 

Tri-colored standard, starred and barred, 

Never by stain of dishonor marred! 

Silken thy folds, and thy staff secure, 

Lifted aloft by the young and pure! 

Fearlessly keep they their altar tryst. 

Bearing thee e’en to the feet of Christ! 

Oh! in the light of His Cross alway. 

Flag of our Country! wave e’en as to-day! 

Do we defy those who fain woul^ deny 
That sons of Christ’s Church can be 
True to her laws, yet staunch to the cause 
Of a Country from bondage free? 

Nay! Let no word of defiance ring. 

But from the archives of glory bring 
Records preserved from oblivion’s mist 
By truth, the unerring annalist! 

Read of the son of the Church who unfurled 
Her standard, and ’neath it discovered a world; 
Read in the names of its rivers and seas 
What was their faith who discovered these. 

Read in the names on the tombstones white 
Their faith who died for freedom and right! 

Oh! fearlessly keep ye your altar tryst — 

Your Country’s Flag bears the blessing of Christ! 



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Softly Chrisfergas el;iime& are falling 
©n the wintry air, 

Pearts througl^out the wide world call 
Vo adorigg prayer, 

Where a IS^other vigil keeps 
©’er a '©abe who calngly sleeps. 

Christmas bells are loudly ringing 
V^raise to Jesus’ JMame; 
i5s.ngel choirs frorg [deaveg bringigg 
Vidiggs glad, proclairg 
Vl^at to-day tl]e waiting eartl] 
Welcomes tl]e Redeemer’s birtl]. 

Cl^ristrgas gotes are sweetly waking 
Joy ig human fjearts; 

Cl^ristmas light is og us breakigg — 

•Ig its rosy darts, 

We the sleeping “©abe cag see 
Vl^e Redeerging ©ge to be. 

©g our cl^aplet beads we’re telligg 
Vhjis sweet ngystery o’er, 

^y tl^eir wogdrous power, indwelligg. 
We, sweet ‘Babe, implore: 

Vo tl]e Roly Souls be giveg 

Cl^ristngas joy to-day — ig Reaveg. 

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A CHRISTMAS STOCKING 


1 HEARD the queerest noises 
^ A little while ago; 

It was that dear old Santa 
Out in that room, I know. 


And now my eyes keep open 
As wide as if ’twas day, 

’Cause thoughts of dear old Santa 
Keep all the sleep away. 


Dear grandma said her stocking 
She’d hang up, all for me, 
Because too small for Santa 
A little boy’s would be. 

Oh, what’s in it, I wonder? 

Can’t see in this dark night; 
Oh, jolly, dear old Santa 
Forgot to take his light! 


A bound from cosy pillows, 
A tumble on the floor, 

A run across the hallway, 
A peep in open door, 



And there dear grandma found him, 
Her candle in his hand, 

His eyes the widest open 
Of any in the land, 

A-staring at that stocking. 

The fullest in the town! — 

With a kiss she put that baby 
Back in his bed of down. 

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“ A happy new year,” to one and all; 

“ A happy new year,” to great and small; 

Over and over have glad lips sung, 

Over and over have blithe bells rung. 

The years have all grown old, and fled. 

Leaving a bright new one instead. 

Where do they go, the vanishing years. 

That never a one of them reappears? 

Oh, the vanishing years, they flee 
Unto the land of Memory; 

They cannot come back, but we may go 
And visit them in that land, you know. 

Some of them greet us with happiness. 

And some are sorry to see us, I guess; 

For oh! we once made them sad-hearted or gay. 
And just as they left us, the old years stay. 

Oh, how shall it be with the timid new year? 
Shall it greet us, one day, with a smile, or a tear, 
When unto the country of Memory 
We wandering go, the old years to see? 

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pH/ tue- pra^jc^, 

Galtfc-ct^ij ! 



WASHINGTON. 


I. 

Oh, other names may glow upon 
The page of history 

With deeds more dazzling than we read, 
Great Patriot, of thee; 

But noble cause hath never yet 
In nobler ways been won. 

Than was the freedom of our land. 

By thee, great Washington! 

No thought of wealth or fame or power— 
No thought of self at all. 

But ever one great aim — to free 
Thy land from English thrall! 

II. 

Not in the strength of hand or brain 
Didst thou the foe defy— 

“ In God We Trust,” thy silent prayer, 
Thy mighty battle-cry! 

And when the master-deed achieved, — 
Thy cherished country free, 

A grateful people thrice held out 
Rich laurels unto thee; 

When thy keen soul to thee proclaimed 
Thy public mission done, 

The world beheld thy grandest deed, 

O glorious Washington! 

III. 

The world beheld thy footsteps turn 
To lowly rural ways; 

Thy hands take up the humble tasks 
Again, of earlier days; 

All tranquilly thy life passed on 
Until its setting sun. 

Humility, thy glory’s shield, 

O well-loved Washington! 

The jealousy of lesser men 

Ne’er smote thy glorious fame; 

And mankind hath no word but praise 
To breathe with thy dear name. 


Lafayette. 


He whispered farewell to his native land. 
Farewell to his loved ones and home; 

His sword buckled on with a firm young hand ; 
And crossed the ocean foam; 


Took unto his heart the strangers' wrong, — 
And made it his own. Then he 
Unsheathed his sword, so keen and strong 
In the struggle for liberty. 


Ne'er from the fight did he respite claim 
Till our country's cause was won. 
We’ve writ his name on the page of fame 
With our own loved Washington,” 

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A LENTEN STORY. 


:o: 

It was Ash-Wednesday. The Convent school children had 
heard Mass in the parish church near by, and now in the class- 
room were listening with clasped hands, earnest eyes, loving 
hearts, to the instruction that Sister Raymunda was giving, — a ten- 
der appeal it was for the gift of some little sacrifice, to be kept 
up all through the Lent, a sacrifice from each to Him who had 
suffered so much for all the world, and for everyone of them, as 
specially as though only their souls were to be redeemed. 
“ What shall the sacrifice be, children? Let it be something that 
will really be a sacrifice,” and Sister Raymunda’s voice ceased. 

The young heads were bent thoughtfully, and as one by one 
they were lifted, with a serious look in the bright eyes turned 
towards her. Sister Raymunda knew the resolve was formed. 

There were many different dispositions in the youthful group. 
There was studious Belle Marlowe, who had to be fairly driven 
from her books in recreation hour; she had held the head of the 
class through the term so far, and since her earliest days in the 
school had never got a “ black mark ” for recitation; there was 
care-free Julia Morton, who didn’t see what use there was in marks 
anyway, and boldly declared that one place in class was as good 
as another, providing Kittie Mayberry, “ her chum,” was beside her, 
and Kittie’s aims in life being no higher in the scale of ambition 
than her own, they kept pretty closely together. There was 
Bertha Grey, who had to plod for hours at a task that her friend, 
Mary Lewis, “ had by heart ” at the second reading. 

And among those who were neither ambitious nor the reverse, 
but ordinary scholars, there was Clare Blakeman, who sulked a week 
whenever she lost a place, and Martha Brennan, whom nobody 
ever saw out of humor; Sadie Dalton, who burst into tears at the 
slightest word of reproof; and Bessie Leigh, who blinked the tears 
back, declaring often that “ she’d die before she’d be a crybaby.” 
There was Frances Lee, who couldn’t keep out of mischief, and 
when caught, took her penances as a matter of course. They were 


bitter, but to give up the fun to avoid the penance was something 
not to be considered an instant; and there was Lucy Colton, who, 
though not so general a favorite with the pupils as were Julia 
Morton and Frances Lee, was yet in Sister Raymunda’s eyes the 
model pupil of the school. Despite occasional shortcomings, the 
practised teacher could see in her a constant striving to grow bet- 
ter, and she noticed a practice she had of going by herself to the 
chapel for a brief visit to the Blessed Sacrament; especially was 
this noticeable after a reproof, or when any schoolgirl contention 
was “ in the air.” Good-natured Martha Brennan was elected by 
the children as the future nun of her class, but Sister Raymunda 
saw in her abounding natural goodness, a future woman of the 
world, gliding gracefully and easily around difficulties, rather 
than overcoming them. If a vocation was foreshadowed at all, 
in their teacher’s estimation it was in the struggle for self-con- 
quest, visible in Lucy Colton. 

Clare Blakenian had a most unfortunate disposition, one that 
showed itself in a resolve “ to be even with everyone ” who had 
done her a fancied injury, and she always felt injured when she 
failed in class. Three days after the taking of their Lenten res- 
olutions, she asked Lucy Colton to prompt her if three specially 
difficult questions came to her in the physical geography lesson. 
She stood, during recitation, immediately in front of Lucy’s desk, 
the latter who was a persevering, not a brilliant student, being in 
the second division in this and a few other lessons. Prompting 
being absolutely a forbidden practice, Lucy had quietly, kindly, 
but firmly refused. The result was a failure for Clare, and the 
loss of her place in class, the worst of all the disgrace, in her eyes, 
being that Bertha Grey and Julia Morton for the first time got 
above her. 

It was Lucy’s week for filling the ink-wells. She had just 
reached Clare’s desk, and was in the act of pouring the ink care- 
fully into the little well in the desk, when she heard in Clare’s 
moody whisper: 

“ You wouldn’t prompt me this morning, would you? Take that 
for your kindness! ” 

At the same instant the girl’s hand gave a push to Lucy’s el- 
bow — the ink bottle slipped from her grasp, and lay shattered in 
a black pool upon the floor. 


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It was a cruel revenge. Tears came to Lucy’s eyes. The 
gaze of the whole school was fixed on her in an instant. 

“ How could you be so careless, Lucy? ” Sister Raymunda 
asked, coming hastily with a great sheet of blotting paper to re- 
pair, as far as possible, the damage to the polished floor. For- 
tunately, there had been but little ink in the bottle. 

Lucy turned appealingly to Clare, never dreaming that she 
would not bear her share of the blame. The moody girl was si- 
lent. On Lucy’s lips trembled the full statement — but suddenly 
there came to her like a gentle whisper, the thought of her reso- 
lution for Lent, silently, but oh, so sacredly pledged to God 
three days before — to offer /to excuse duri/ig Le/it when blamed for 
anything. 

She had not, it is true, foreseen anything so terrible as this, 
but it had come, and could she be unfaithful? 

What weary heart-aching days and nights followed! How she 
longed to go and throw herself into Sister Raymunda’s arms, and 
tell her sorrow, and tell Clare Blakeman’s treachery! But she 
struggled through it all, and at last the reward came. 

It was the eve of St. Thomas Aquinas’ Feast, a day dear to the 
class, for were they not all soldiers of the Angelic Warfare? 
And was St. Thomas not their own dear leader? And was he not 
the Patron of youth and of schools? Did he not have just the 
dearest little oratory at the end of the classroom corridor, where 
the children went to ask his help, and to thank him when the 
help was given? How often Lucy had, during all the past days, 
craved his help in the terrible battle for silence, and patience, 
and resignation! Many a soul older, more experienced than 
poor little Lucy, can testify that no cross presses with keener 
pain than one that comes as the result of an absolute fidelity to 
duty. It seemed to the child that a hundred times in the day 
every pupil’s eye would wander to the great ink-stain on the floor, 
and then to her; and Sister Raymunda had at once withdrawn the 
charge of the ink, and was herself filling out Lucy’s week. 

For three days Clare Blakeman had not been to school. Lucy 
was in the chapel, praying, after class was dismissed. Sister Ray- 
munda entered, touched her on the shoulder, saying softly: 

“ Come with me, child; Clare Blakeman wants to see you.” 

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She led her to the little Oratory of St. Thomas Aquinas, at the 
end of the school corridor, and there they found Clare on the prie- 
dieu, in tears. Such a pitiful face as she uplifted, and how her 
voice trembled as she said: 

“ Lucy, I told Sister Raymunda all about it, and IVe been here 
in the convent three days, in retreat, and Sister says she will beg 
you to forgive me for the cruel thing I did to you,” — she broke 
down sobbing. 

Clare’s arms were around her; her forgiveness softly spoken. 
Sister stole away, leaving them together. 

“But, Lucy,” Clare questioned, as soon as she grew tranquil, 
“ why did you not tell on me? I don’t think I meant to deceive, 
and I know that if you had told that I pushed your elbow, I would 
not have denied that I did it, but I couldn’t get courage to say 
that I had done it, till I asked Sister to let me go into retreat. 
Why didn’t you tell that I made you spill the ink? ” 

Lucy was silent, her face reddened, then she said softly: 
“ Because, — Clare, because — to bear everything, without excusing 
myself, was my sacrifice given to our Lord for Lent.” 

“ And how well you kept it, dear! Mine was never to go into 
sulks when I lost my place in class, nor to pay people back in sin- 
ful ways — and I broke it in three days. But this is a terrible lesson, 
and I feel, dear, that the pain I’ve suffered here, and here (putting 
her hand on her heart, and then on her head), has burned that 
horrible habit right out of me. Sister says that God gives graces 
that way sometimes, because if we always obtained them by our 
own efforts, we would get proud about it. You’ll pray for me, 
Lucy? ” 

Ten minutes later, Sister Raymunda parted the heavy drapery, 
and looking in, beheld the two saying the Beads together. 


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TO TEACHERS. 


Before allowing the class to attempt to read a piece, make all familiar with 
the new or difficult words. Have the children use the words in oral and writ- 
ten sentences, and find them in books, papers, or magazines. It may take a 
week to prepare a lesson, the reading of which will occupy but a few minutes, 
but that thorough preparation has fitted the child to read many other pieces. 

The beauty of certain words and expressions ought to be brought out, and 
commented upon, such as love-lit, aglow, golden, noon-tide, chaplet, frolic- 
some, and many others. 

Some of the pieces included in this book are meant to be read aloud by the 
teacher. The children should be required afterwards to give in their own 
words, the thought as read to them. Among these pieces are “ Two,” “ Wash- 
ington,” “ The Blessing of the Flag,” “Lafayette,” and “A Lenten Story.” 

“ A Lenten Story ” is given as an example of child-study. 

Have the children commit to memory some of the pieces. 

The book will be found of great value because of the variety of pictures, 
and their adaptation to language work. 

The picture may sometimes be used in connection with language work be- 
fore the piece which it serves to illustrate is read, thus giving each child an 
opportunity to get his own story from the picture before reading the words in 
the book. 

The accompanying list of words will be of assistance in preparing the work 
for each lesson. 

B. Ellen Burke. 


WORDS AND EXPRESSIONS 

FOR EXERCISES PREPARATORY TO READING LESSONS. 

Page 


A WISH FOR OUR LITTLE MEN AND WOMEN. . . . . 

Helpful— kindly —people — lovingly — tender — beam — gently — souls 
— learn— temptation— children— nature. 

ANOELS GUARD THEM. 7 

Angels — earthly — danger — care — hovers — youthful — slumber — voices 
— guard — faithful — join— downy. 

FAIRY GOOD MORNING. 8 

jT'jxii.y — 0’en — reigns — airy — comfort — deceive — winsome — glisten- - ‘round. 

IN DISGRACE 0 

Intended — tried — sorrow — we’re. 


Page 

MAKING GRANDMA YOUNG AGAIN. II 

Y^ou’d — isn’t — ribbons — peacock — surely — feathers— mended — pinned 
— patched. 

BABY IN PAPA’S EYES 12 

Hide-and-seek — quiet — dainty — dreamland — perched — tumbles — gaz- 
ing — merrily— spell — earnestly — upward — soiry — woiider. 

AN EASTER LILY. - - 15 

Shielded — Easter — guileless— dawm — evermore — a-blooming — love-light 
— delight — lily-branch — “ pitty Towers.” 

WASTED LETTERS. 16 

Hearth — waste — bough — heart — wicked — puzzles — height — folks — snuff 
— costs — thrown — smart — sound — perhaps — needed — cheapei- — a bit. 

THE MORNING CALL 17 

Make-believe — pee]) — barked — quiet — banished — leaped — thinks. 

A GIFT FOR THE SACRED HEART. 18 

Rosary chaplet — Christ’s — knelt — feast — fragrant — ’cause — Sacred Heart 
— altar— ])leaded — clasping — offering — fondly — aglow — quite so — ten- 
derly — finish. 

ON INDEPENDENCE DAY. - ]t) 

Liberty — hurrah— union — waves — blue and grey — stars and stripes — cen- 
tre — patriots — motto — brave and bold — meet and just — bless — rang 
out — praise. 

A WISE MAMMA-CAT - It) 

IMischief — determined — alphabet — settle right down — feared — storing 
— frolicsome. 

FETCH IT. 21 

Dumb— changing sea — jolliest— kindly— lovely— cuff.s — ended — swims 
— harshly — girlie— catches — [well-nigh— cling — ])roudly — beasts — 
saved — brute-life — doesn’t — frolic — beats. 

A CROSS MAMMA-CAT. - 22 

Forget — kittens — scolded. 

A. E. I. 0. U. 23 

Humble — eternal plan— consonants — equal — people— meaning — alphal)et 
— vowels — queer — listen — meaning. 

JEALOUSY. 25 

Horrid — j ealousy— n augh ty — tel li ng. 

WITH ROBINSON CRUSOE. 26 

Fancy — dream on — dark’ning — wandering — strange — murmur — anchor 

— famous — wavelets — winsome — hero — isle — spirit — enraptured — be- 
guile — sea-girt — power. 

A HELPLESS WATCH. 27 

Lynx-eyed — somebody — relief — frowned — ca])ture — moody — growled 

thief. 


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Page 

NOW AND THEN. 21) 

Fearful — russet — bushel — prayerful — golden — guides — plump — brim- 
ming — faith — shielded — careful, 

MARHARET. 31 

Noon-tide — nick-name — Marguerite — Angelus — pearl — neglecting — pure- 
souled — duties — lazy — “ in a fret ” — grief — break and close — peevish. 

ALL FOR YOU. 32 

Needs — azure — gathered — breathe — queen — upward — dewy — parted 
— throne — fragrant — beam — liow’rets — treasure — lifted — dro])ped 
— scattered^ — beats — clasps — maiden — beads — our Lady — hies — child- 
ish — laden — vines. 

CHRISTMAS. 35 

Wondrous — proclaim — Christmas — power — Redeemer — chimes — darts 
— throughout — chaplet — adoring — holy souls — mystery — vigil — in- 
dwelling — calmly — tiding — choirs — implore. 

A CHRISTMAS STOCKINO. 3fi 

Cosy— queerest — bed of down — noises— tumble — a-staring — hallway. 

A HAPPY NEW YEAR. 37 

Wander — vanishing — memory — timid — blithe — sad-hearted — wander. 


ILLUSTRATIONS. 


Illustration of title page, photographed from life and copyiighted 

by E. Decher, Cle'Delrmd, Ohio. 

Christ Blessing Little Children, (frontispiece) B. Plockhorst 

The Holy Family, Ittenhacli 

Jn Disgrace, B. Buvton Bovhcv 

Making Grandma Y^oung Again, John Morgan 

Baby in Papa’s Eyes, Cecil Rose O'' Neill. . . . 

An Easter Lily, Photograjth from life., hy Rochwood^ N. T. 

The Morning Call, 0. Burton Barher 

Fetch It, Bossi 

A Cross Mamma-cat, Lotiis Eugene Lambert... 

.lealousjq Landseer 

With Robinson Crusoe, B. Collinson 

Now and Then, Fred Morgan 

Margaret, B. Morgan 

All for YTu, ... Cecil Rose O’’ Neill 

Madonna and Child, Carlo Bold • 

Washington, John Faed 


2 

4 


1 ) 

10 

12 

14 

17 

20 

22 


24 

20 

28 

30 

32 

34 

38 


The Rosary, page 17, represents the beautiful gift of pure silver, fire-gilt 
and enriched with enamels, by ]\r. Armand-Calliat, which was presented by 
the Dominican Province of Lyons, to our Holy Father, Leo XHL, onhisgold- 
en jubilee as a priest. 


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CONTENTS. 


Page 


Christ Blessing Little Children, (Frontispiece) 2 

Our Children, 3 

The Holy Family, 4 

Introduction, 5 

Angels Guard Them, (Illustrated) 7 

Fairy Good Morning, 8 

In Disgrace, (Illustrated) 9 

Making Grandma Young Again, (Illustrated) ii 

Baby In Papa^s Eyes, (Illustrated) 12 

An Easter Lily, (Illustrated) 15 

Wasted Letters, 16 

The Morning Call, (Illustrated) 17 

A Gift for the Sacred Heart, (Illustrated) 18 

On Independence Day, (Illustrated) 19 

A Wise Mamma Cat, (Illustrated) 19 

Fetch It, (Illustrated) 21 

A Cross Mamma Cat, (Illustrated) 22 

A. E. 1. O. U 23 

Jealousy, (Illustrated) 25 

With Robinson Crusoe, (Illustrated) 26 

A Helpless Watch, (Illustrated) 27 

Now and Then, (Illustrated) 29 

Margaret, (Illustrated) 31 

All for You, (Illustrated) 32 

The Blessing of the Flag, (Illustrated) 33 

Christmas, (Illustrated) 35 

A Christmas Stocking. (Illustrated) 36 

Happy New Year, (Illustrated) 37 

Washington, (Illustrated) 3^ 

Lafayette, 

A Lenten Story, 41 

To Teachers ... 45 

Words and Expressions, 45 

Artists of Illustrations, 4^ 


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ties. Published by the Rosary Publishing Co., New York.— T/ie Catholic Tribune, St. Joseph, Mo. 

“ A Course of Study for Roman Catholic Parochial Schools,” compiled and arranged by an experienced 
parochial school teacher. — This is a valuable little pamphlet, giving many useful hints to parochial school 
teachers, and aims to help in the establishment of a much needed uniformity among our parochial schools. 
It will certainly he studied with deep Interest, and we may expect that it will do much good for the cause 
of Catholic education.— Church News, Washington, D. C. 

A helpful, and in many respects a valuable little work is that which the Rosary Publication Co., New 
York, has issued under the title of ” A Course of Study for Roman Catholic Parochial Schools.” The 
courses cover all classes, from the lowest primary to the highest grammar, and embrace all branches of 
studies, and their arrangement seems excellent. Parochial school teachers would do well to read, even if 
they cannot follow, this course of study. — Sacred Heart Review. 

“ A Course of Study for Roman Catholic Parochial Schools ” is a little volume of 138 pages, well printed and 
splendidly written, by an experienced parochial school teacher. The book should prove an Invaluable aid 
to the parochial school teacher, and should be in the hands of all who strive to improve their teaching meth- 
ods.— (7af/io?ic News, Memphis, Tenn. 

A really valuable publication is ” A Course of Study for Roman Catholic Parochial Schools,” just issueo 
bv the Rosary Publication Co. It reveals rare skill in the management of classes, and considerable insivh’ 
into modern methods of education. One of the great needs of our day is a series of pedagogical wmrks- 
which wrill let our Catholic teachers share in what is really valuable in modern pedagogy. If we cann<a 
have conventions of Catholic teachers, interchange of ideas by means of books and periodicals is the nex» 
best resource. — Ave Maiia," Aug. 3, 1895. 

Address, 


THE ROSARY PUBLICATION CO.. 
871 Lexin^on Ave., N. Y, 











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